Chengdu Longquan Station Yangen Palace. The wall clock hanging on the west wall www.biquge.info the pen "Fun" Pavilion has already shown that it is now eleven o'clock in the evening, if it were at the original time, at this time, Cixi would have already fallen asleep, but today, she is still looking at the telegram in front of her and pondering.

The telegram was an hour earlier from his personal eunuch Li Lianying who had sent from the telegraph room the negotiation opinions on the Liaodong side.

The difference with himself is too big, and looking at that tone, it is aggressive, and there is no room for bargaining at all.

Abdication, what will these princes and ministers do after the abdication, will they go to the ground to plant, will they do business, but they can get it, and it is okay to eat ready-made one by one. But if the wheel is self-reliant, and Cixi knows better than anyone else, it will be absolutely impossible.

On this one, Cixi thought about it, and she would not agree, once she agreed, then she would be a sinner in the Qing Dynasty, and what face would she have to see her ancestors and ancestors in the future.

Second, Liaodong does not allow any power to divide the land, and this Cixi cannot agree, if so, what rights do she have in the future, that is, inferior people, which she does not want to see or hear.

Categorically unable to agree, Cixi, who had figured it out, looked at Li Lianying in front of her and put the telegram aside to signal that she could go to rest.

Cixi, who had thought about the problem clearly, slept very comfortably this night, and early the next morning, Cixi ordered the front to temporarily stop the morning court, but ordered the military aircraft department. The military department and several princes came to the Yang'en Palace, ready to discuss how to deal with the negotiations with Liaodong, and finally after deliberation, it was finally decided to use the negotiations to delay time for the time being, and secretly, the imperial army began to be accurate, once the Liaodong army relaxed its vigilance, it immediately launched an attack on Liaodong, and first took Hanzhong, the mouth of the river.

Cixi, who is down-to-earth and has a very poor understanding of the imperial court troops, is very satisfied when she sees the princes and ministers below analyzing the Tao, but she doesn't know that the people below are just to cater to her own will. The expenses that the imperial court should have used for many years to build the army have all been used to build the palace, and the cost spent on military affairs is less than one-tenth of the original. Such a military can give the Liaodong Army a huge blow, who will believe such words.

Cixi's biggest mistake was this trust.

In Liaodong's Baoji North Korean Defense Command Headquarters, three days have passed. There has been no progress in the negotiations, and Li Hongzhang knows that this kind of nonsense is useless at all, so since yesterday, he has no longer entered the venue, but handed over the command of the matter to Wu Tingfang, and let Wu Tingfang deal with this matter, while he himself came to Liu Jun to have a leisurely time.

"Old man, you told the court to abdicate, is it a point, this is forcing people to die." In the headquarters, after listening to Li Hongzhang's report to himself for the first time in three days, Liu Jun suddenly interjected and said.

What did I force them, Li Hongzhang, who didn't understand, looked confused, he absolutely had a good way to abdicate, and then be self-reliant, so that it would be good not to kill them all, not good.

"Those of them never know how to plant, they don't know how to do business, and if you let the family abdicate, they can only sit and eat, and then starve to death, and finally ask for food, which is not what I want to see." Liu Jun, who said this, thought about it again and said again: "Leave some virtue, I will give them four million a year, and after five years, 500,000 will decrease, this is to give them a buffer zone, so that they can use some of the skills they can learn in the past ten years, of course, if they have the ability to join the government, they can also do it." Self-reliance is easy to talk about, but it is not so easy to do. After speaking, Liu Jun looked at Li Hongzhang in front of him with an affectionate face.

I really didn't think of this, hearing Liu Jun say this, Li Hongzhang nodded, then stood up and said: "I didn't think it through, so I'll go and discuss it with Wu Tingfang immediately, and then revise it." After speaking, Li Hongzhang didn't wait for Liu Jun to say anything, but turned around and walked out.

This old man, do you want me to be the emperor I want to go crazy, I didn't even see such a problem, and when Li Hongzhang walked out, Liu Jun picked up the document in front of him and looked at it, and thought helplessly.

Knock knock knock....... Knock knock knock....... A slight sound of footsteps sounded, the sound of leather shoes and the unique way of rubbing shoes, this should be Zhong Lin.

"Head, the situation in Hunan is out." Zhong Lin, who came over, picked up the telegram and said.

I finally waited for the news from Hunan. Hearing this, Liu Jun put down the telegram next to him and asked Zhong Lin in front of him, "What's the matter?" ”

Zhong Lin knew that Liu Jun would not read the telegram, he was already familiar with the content of the telegram, and without waiting to read the telegram, Zhong Lin said directly: "According to the investigation of Hunan Station, Duanfang, the governor of Huguang, in less than three months, urgently expanded the strength of the army to three towns, that is, three divisions, and the equipment they used was all British equipment, and even the people who trained them were British. ”

The British intervened in the affairs of Hubei and Hunan, Liu Jun, who heard this, stood up suddenly, looked at Zhong Lin in front of him, he was a little dissatisfied in his heart, such a big thing, Hunan Station has not been reported, what else can such a stationmaster do.

"Remove the stationmaster of Hunan Station from my post, and in addition, find out to me the exact time period when the British arrived in Hunan, their weapons, how they came over, what the Guangdong sailors were doing, and why so many weapons were transported, why they were not discovered." A series of commands quickly came out of Liu Jun's mouth, and Zhong Lin, who heard these orders, was startled, then turned around and walked out to start conveying orders.

"Bastard thing." When Zhong Lin walked out, Liu Jun banged on the table and said loudly.

"What's wrong? You shouldn't be scolding Zhong Lin, right? Zheng Yiqian, who was on the side, saw Liu Jun scolding, put down her work and walked over to ask Liu Jun.

How is this possible, Liu Jun just scolded the stationmaster of the Hunan Station below, and also scolded the governor of Huguang, Duanfang. Where did the courage come from, and actually pulled the British in, and what is more serious. actually gave them free training troops, all of this, it seems, is very abnormal behavior, unless there is some deal between them. Otherwise, with the face of the British, it would be impossible to do such a thing at a loss. (To be continued.) )